Sworn Elsewhere - De la Espriella’s US Oath and Colombia’s Constitution Naranjo Cáceres, Juan Zahir Author aut Text xx# 2026 Verfassungsblog 2026-08-05 eng
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 On 7 August, Colombia's president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, takes office. He will swear to keep faith with the Constitution and take command of the armed forces. Yet he has already sworn, in an oath that remains formally operative, to renounce all allegiance to every other sovereign and to bear arms for the United States. Constitutions that make dual nationality an individual right seldom pause to ask what that right means for the one office meant to personify the sovereignty of the people. Colombia can no longer avoid the question. CC BY-SA 4.0 Naranjo Cáceres, Juan Zahir Columbia Dual Citizenship President Presidential Powers United States 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/espriella-us-citizenship/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/2c51d9927b55abe5 260805 10.59704/2c51d9927b55abe5 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)